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Why Does NBA hate Pacers?

First off, They went to commercial for BOTH second round picks which i am sure you guys are aware of.

Second, I stayed up late to watch the NBA Draft Recap on NBATV and they break down every first round pick with highlights, along with a little analysis of the 2nd round picks. When they got to the pacers talked about them for about 20 seconds with no highlights and mentioned Lance pick to hurry to a commercial. Why cant they just break down our pick like they do for everyone else? I guess it wont happen until we are relevant again, which is hopefully soon.

Re: Why Does NBA hate Pacers?

First off, They went to commercial for BOTH second round picks which i am sure you guys are aware of.

Second, I stayed up late to watch the NBA Draft Recap on NBATV and they break down every first round pick with highlights, along with a little analysis of the 2nd round picks. When they got to the pacers talked about them for about 20 seconds with no highlights and mentioned Lance pick to hurry to a commercial. Why cant they just break down our pick like they do for everyone else? I guess it wont happen until we are relevant again, which is hopefully soon.

Yeah Im ******* pis**d off about this.They show other irrelevant teams second round picks but not ours. So much for staying up late.

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I'm on the west coast and had to work tonight. I saw that a replay of the draft would be on at midnight... so I stayed up to watch... making sure not to check any of the picks.... they did the normal coverage for the first nine picks... then the skipped to commercials... and came back with the 11th pick... completely skipping the taping of the 10th pick.... absolutely nothing about it in the late night replay....

So, I just had to check out some videos online.... sucked... I can't believe they just completely skipped the whole pick w/o mentioning it at all....

Re: Why Does NBA hate Pacers?

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ESPN and the NBA are different things.

ESPN has no ability to do any fair and balanced reporting on any subject with any integrity whatsoever.

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Honestly, I have said this before, but I think the other GMs don't like Larry. I don't know if it is his personality, or maybe the "falling out" that he and Donnie and the FO had (I don't know if they had a falling out, but if Donnie was pushed out, maybe the other GMs resent that...), but it is obvious that no other team wants to deal with Larry. We even had a GM mocking us (Kahn). We need a GM who is part of the establishment, then WE could get major players for small prices (ala Camby or Gasol), instead of losing every trade as far as value goes.

I am probably just paranoid, but that is how it seems to me.

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Re: Why Does NBA hate Pacers?

I don't think it's the NBA hates the Pacers more than ESPN has lost its integrity.

ESPN has gotten so big that I think they've forgotten why they used to be good. Now it's all about the money and that means slurping up the big name franchises. I was very disappointed last night watching the draft and feel they didn't offer very much insight at all.

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Honestly, I have said this before, but I think the other GMs don't like Larry. I don't know if it is his personality, or maybe the "falling out" that he and Donnie and the FO had (I don't know if they had a falling out, but if Donnie was pushed out, maybe the other GMs resent that...), but it is obvious that no other team wants to deal with Larry. We even had a GM mocking us (Kahn). We need a GM who is part of the establishment, then WE could get major players for small prices (ala Camby or Gasol), instead of losing every trade as far as value goes.

I am probably just paranoid, but that is how it seems to me.

Kahn was nothing but Donnie Walsh's BICH when he was in Indy and he's done nothing to improve Minny since taking over. I'm sure he got his panties in a bunch when Bird was picked as Donnie's successor instead of him! I think that's where the bad blood came from. Not sure how the other GMs in the league feel. Had the pleasure of meeting both DW and Kahn outside of St. Elmo's one evening. Donnie was polite, down to earth, nice guy. Kahn was a smug, self-center PRCK!

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Kahn was nothing but Donnie Walsh's BICH when he was in Indy and he's done nothing to improve Minny since taking over. I'm sure he got his panties in a bunch when Bird was picked as Donnie's successor instead of him! I think that's where the bad blood came from. Not sure how the other GMs in the league feel. Had the pleasure of meeting both DW and Kahn outside of St. Elmo's one evening. Donnie was polite, down to earth, nice guy. Kahn was a smug, self-center PRCK!

im with you. honestly, who cares what kahn thinks? what has he done? how far has he taken the twolves?

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Normally I find the idea that the NBA ignores or punishes a team on purpose usually nothing more than tin foil hat material.

However that crap last night was just downright insulting.

I spent almost 40 min. watching thier review of the draft just to see them say we selected Paul George. No real comments, no video, nothing....

As was said they spent more time talking about how dissapointed Indiana was to not draft the Butler kid than they did about us or our picks.

And yes, coincidence I'm sure, but both of our second round picks were put up during the commercials.

Maybe it was just a mere coincidence, but it really sucked that we were the only lottery team that NBA TV looked over and did not show footage or really talk about our pick. It sure felt like they screwed us over.